In 1954, LIFE photographer Nat Farbman made a series of pictures of enterprising felines on Art Badertscher’s dairy farm; one of Badertscher’s cats, Squirrley, rose up on her hind legs one day for a squirt of milk right from a cow’s udder — and ever since then, the farmer had been training all of the farm’s cats to do the same. Brownie (Squirrley’s son) makes a perfect catch while Blackie, a stray that “just wandered in one day and joined the act,” waits his turn.

How to Know Your Cat Really Loves You. Light nips to your elbow, chin, or tip of nose? High personal regard! (On the other hand, #10 sometimes means that you are such an inept hunter that they worry about you.)